The 2023 German Development Economics conference took place on 1-2 June, 2023, and was hosted by the Technical University Dresden. The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, parallel sessions with contributed papers, and poster sessions will reflect the current state of research in development economics and provide a forum for exchange for researchers and practitioners.

Keynote Speakers

Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim)
Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)

Local Organizers

Christian Leßmann (Technical University Dresden).

Selection Committee

Axel Dreher (Heidelberg University), Andreas Fuchs (University of Göttingen), Michael Grimm (University of Passau), Isabel Günther (ETH Zürich), Krisztina Kis-Katos (University of Göttingen), Christian Leßmann (TU Dresden) and Matthias Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt).

Submission

The CfP closed on February 15.

Program

The program can be found here.

Do you ask yourself where our discipline is heading? In a special issue of the Review of Development Economics, we want to debate the current trends and the future directions in development economics. This is an open call for submissions on research methods, ethics and finance. The co-editors are Anke Hoeffler and Reetika Khera.

Link to the call: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679361.

More information can be found here.

The Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association, in close cooperation with KfW Development Bank, awards the 2022 Research Prize for policy relevant research on developing countries. The objective is the promotion of dialogue between academia and practice as well as development research in the German-speaking area.

The prize for young researchers awards three German- or English-language doctoral theses in the field of development research in social sciences that combine scientific excellence and relevance for development policy. The independent committee selecting the winning theses consists of representatives from various scientific backgrounds and KfW Development Bank. The prize will be awarded at the next annual conference of the Research Group on Development Economics in Hohenheim on June 9th and 10th, 2022.

The submission window closed February 15th, 2022. For further information, please see the call for applications or the Research Prize page .

The Doctoral Workshop 2021 of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association was organized by Christian Lessmann from the TU Dresden and took place from 16-17 September 2021 in Dresden as well as online. The workshop’s aim was to enable doctoral students to improve their research, advise them on the preparation of a refereed journal article, practice academic discussions and build informal networks.

The program as well as further information on the event can be found here.

The annual conference was held on 17-18 June 2021 and brought together more than 150 international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with contributed papers reflected the current state of research in development economics and provided a forum for exchange for researchers and practitioners. Due to the COVID pandemic the event was held fully virtual.

Keynote Speakers
Anandi Mani (Oxford University)
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)

Local Organizers
Dierk Herzer (HSU Hamburg), Jann Lay (GIGA Hamburg) and Rainer Thiele (IfW Kiel).

Selection Committee
Axel Dreher (Heidelberg University), Andreas Fuchs (University of Göttingen), Michael Grimm (University of Passau), Isabel Günther (ETH Zürich), Anke Hoeffler (University of Konstanz), Jann Lay (GIGA Hamburg), Matthias Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Rainer Thiele (IfW Kiel).

Program

Next year the conference will be hosted by the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim. The Call for Papers will be published in November/December this year.

Zum elften Mal hat die KfW Entwicklungsbank gemeinsam mit dem Entwicklungsökonomischen Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (VfS) den Förderpreis für praxisrelevante Entwicklungsforschung verliehen. Mit dem Preis werden drei Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ausgezeichnet, deren Doktorarbeiten wissenschaftliche Exzellenz und Praxisrelevanz auf herausragende Art vereinen.

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